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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: knarf.be on March 14, 2013, 06:19:39 pm
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I just wanted to know: I'm currently working on a solar project with RFID, XRF's (wbee clones), AVR's ...
Because I'm interested in reading blogs of other people, I want to ask you guys if it would be appreciated if I translate the main posts (not the personal nonsense) to English.
Writing a text in English usually costs me the double of time, so if no one is interested, it wouldn't be worth translating it.
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Run it through Google translate first and see if it's readable. Sometimes it does a good job. You could use that as a basis, and then clean it up where Google translate didn't work so well.
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I just wanted to know: I'm currently working on a solar project with RFID, XRF's (wbee clones), AVR's ...
Because I'm interested in reading blogs of other people, I want to ask you guys if it would be appreciated if I translate the main posts (not the personal nonsense) to English.
Writing a text in English usually costs me the double of time, so if no one is interested, it wouldn't be worth translating it.
If your mother language is French google translate works best in that pair (English/French); use simple sentence structure, do not use complicated sentences. For the others I don't know. But if you want the widest exposure on internet you should write in English (whether good or not).
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If it comes to science and technology English is a must to know so personally I'd rather think if i have enough readers who do not know English to justify writing in my home language. But that's me.
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I speak dutch, and google translate is not that precise with dutch.
Okay, so from now on I will write now and then an english post, in my awefull english
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If you write interesting stuff people will read and appreciate it regardless how bad your english is, don't worry too much about you language skills.
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I am a native English speaker, despite being born and brought up abroad.
A lot of people apologise for their English on this forum when it is very clear and well expressed - no apology is needed.
But that is a different issue as to whether or not to blog in English when it is not your native language as it is harder work to do so. That all comes down to how big an audience you want.
I work in a research laboratory. Probably most of the researchers are not native English speakers, but they generally converse in English as their native languages are all different.